Oleksandr Bozhyk is a composer and virtuoso violin player, the phenomenon of modern musical world. He masterfully combines exceptional performance and spectacular show, plays equally great classical music, rock, pop, ethno-music. From the age of ten years he participated in competitions and festivals in Ukraine, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Poland. He also performed in Lviv Philharmonic – solo and with orchestra. 

Oleksandr is a superfinalist of TV-show “Ukraine has got talent”, a record-holder of the “Records Book” of Ukraine, who played four violins simultaneously, finalist of the “Glory Minute” show, a laureate of All-Ukrainian and international competitions. He is well-known outside Ukraine as a competitor of “Britain’s Got Talent” show. After his magnificent performance on “Mam talent!” show (Poland) he was called “Jimmy Hendrix among violinists”.

The instrumental project BOZHYK DUO was created by musicians couple Alexander and Julia Bozhyk. The virtuosos’ repertoire includes many covers of foreign and Ukrainian hits in their arrangement, soundtracks to movies and original music. They post new ones on their YouTube channel, recorded both in concert halls and just in the open-air. The genre has also no thematic framework, musicians create covers for absolutely everything they like – it can be music by Scryabin and Tina Karol, as well as AC/DC and RAMMSTEIN.

Born in Kremenets, Anna is a graduate of  Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Academy of Music (class of Assoc. Prof. O. Kacheva) and assistantship-internship at LNMA (class of Professor M. Krushelnytska).

Laureate of the II prize of the All-Ukrainian competition of pianists named after G. Neuhaus (Kropyvnytskyi) and the 1st prize of the International Competition for Harpsichord named after V.Landovska (Bari, Italy).

The main area of ​​creative preferences is ancient music. She is a regular participant in the Festival of Ancient Music in Lviv.

She teaches the History of Piano and Special Piano at the Lviv National Academy of Music. Since 2014 she has been conducting the Baroque Chapel Orchestra and the author’s course basso continuo, and since 2019 she has been teaching the harpsichord elective at the LNMA.

 She has performed as a pianist and harpsichordist in Ukraine, Poland, Switzerland and Japan.

DZ’OB is an electroacoustic band founded in Dnipro in 2014 combines classical music with contemporary electronic. DZ’OB synthesizes classics, IDM, techno, dubstep, coming up with unique, eclectic sounds that blur the time and traditions lines. 

The band consists of 5 instruments: oboe, bassoon, violin, cello and electronics. Ensemble started with reimagining the tracks of the most eccentric electronic composers like Aphex Twin and Squarepusher and mixes them with Shostakovich and Haydn. Now the band’s repertory includes pieces composed by its members and collaborations with modern composers. DZ’OB’s recognizable sound, defined by the band as «electroacoustic IDM», is unique for the European scene. Their live shows are impressive: the drive and power of electronic music fortified with the accuracy of academic music.

Arsenii Stavytskyi was born in 2000 in Kyiv in a family of professional musicians, started playing cello at the age of 6 and since he was 13 became a winner of numerous cello competitions. 

In July 2013 Arsenii performed in the EU as part of the “Wonderful Youth Orchestra”. In 2016 Arsenii had solo performances in Wiesbaden, Darmstadt, Frankfurt-on-Maine, Kaiserslautern, Weilrod-Hasselbach at the “Classic for Pease” II International festival.

Since 2013 to 2017 Arsenii studied composition with honored art worker of Ukraine Ludmila Shukaylo. In 2017 Arsenii entered Kharkov Kotlyarevsky the National University of the Arts.

In May 2020, Arseniy won the Grand Prix of the first international online competition “Odesa Music Olymp”. 

Arsenii took lessons from Kirill Rodin, Gary Hoffman, Aleksey Shadrin, Martti Rousi, Natalie Clein,  Attila Pasztor, Maria Bader-Kubizek and Eugene Lifschitz.

Arsenii is the winner of a special prize from the association “Art without Borders” (Basel).

Arsenii studied conducting with Roman Uschapovskyi andi conducted Prokofiev symphony with the symphony orchestra of Kharkov the SSMS.

One of the virtuoso performers on longitudinal flutes, the heiress of the professional art of green Ukrainian community (Ukrainian chromatic recorder), founded in Ukraine by her father  Myroslav Korchynski.

The artist works with craftsmen to optimize the design of the instrument (with E. Illarionov and V. Yanov), and also expands the repertoire, opens up new possibilities of the flute.

In Ukraine, the organizer of the Open Competition of Flute and Block Flute Players named after I.Sklyar and E. Bobrovnikov (2000). Collaborates with numerous ensembles and soloists. 

A graduate of the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Academy of Music, as well as the Kyiv National Music Academy named after P. Tchaikovsky at the Department

Of Early Music. Laureate of the International competition of performers

on folk instruments named after G. Khotkevych (Kharkiv, 1998, 1st prize).

Today Bozhena Korchynska provides her own class at Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy.

Bozhena Korchynska dedicates her work to the establishment of the Ukrainian chromatic sopilka as an artistic, concert instrument, forming a new sound standard of this unique national Ukrainian invention through her creativity and performance of her students.

In 2017 – has defended the first in history dissertation devoted to the history of this musical instrument.

Andriy Kushnir graduated from Krushelnytska Lviv Specialized Music School and Lysenko  Lviv National Music Academy. Participant in various festivals, including the Festival. G. Venyavsky (Szczawno-Zdroj), the Festival of Invented Music (Tarnow), the Festival of Early Music (Lviv), “Virtuosos” (Lviv), “Jadwigensis” (Krosno Odzhanske), projects “A puro tango” (Cairo), “Bach -marathon “(Lviv). He has toured with the orchestras “Leopolis”, “Junge Philharmonie”, “Virtuosos of Lviv” in Europe, Asia, North and South America. He participated in stage productions of G. Purcell’s operas “Dido and Aeneas”, G. Handel’s “Acis and Galatea” on copies of historical instruments.

Oleksandra Vorobey is an artist of the orchestra of the National Opera of Ukraine, a laureate of all-Ukrainе and international competitions. A graduate of Petro Tchaikovsky NMAU  (class of Acting Associate Professor T.G. Mukhina). Participated in international music projects as a member of an orchestra and quartet (I, Culture Orchestra, Orkester Norden). She played solo with chamber and symphony orchestras of Kyiv, Rivne, Mykolayiv. She was a participant in master classes of leading musicians in Europe.

Yana Gordelyanova – assistant trainee of Petro Tchaikovsky NMAU (class of professor O.V. Rydenko), winner of all-Ukraine and international competitions. She graduated from Vasyl Barvinsky DSMU.  (class of Kosynska E.G.). In her repertoire there are contemporary and Ukrainian composers, B. Lyatoshynsky, V. Barvinsky, M. Lastovetsky. She also played solo with symphony orchestras, the State pop symphony orchestra and “Kyiv Soloists” string orchestra.

Natalia Zhytnytska was born in Rivne region, she graduated from Kremenets School of Arts (teacher Natalia Shevchuk) and Ternopil Music School (teacher Iryna Vorobel).

In 2016 and 2017 she became a laureate of the First Prize of the All-Ukrainian competition Kharkiv Assemblies. Since 2017 she studied at Kharkiv National University of Arts (Professor Leonid Kholodenko). During her studies she took an active part in the concert life of the conservatory and the city of Kharkiv, played as a member of student symphony and chamber orchestras “Slobozhansky”, Chamber Orchestra “Nova Sinfonietta”. She took part in the Kharkiv music fest 2019, cultural and artistic events of the New Acropolis organization.

In 2019 she won grant to participate in the Erasmus+ International Program and during the 2019-2020 academic year she studied at the Conservatorio Superior de musica de Vigo, Spain (Professor Mario Peris). She played in the youth orchestra OSV430 in programs with soloists Rosanne Phillippens, Ruben Simeo, Maxim Rysanov. In May 2020 she became the winner of the first prize of the International online festival-competition “Gems of Transcarpathia”. Participated in master classes with Mark Komonko, Stanislav Kucherenko, Rosanne Phillippens.

Lalita Melenchuk was born in Luhansk, where she started taking violin and piano classes at the age of 5.

In 2012, she won the Musical Talent Award at the Gifted Youth International Competition.

At the age of 14 she entered Kharkiv Secondary Special Music Boarding School, majoring in viola, in the class of teacher Emma Kupriyanenko.

In May 2017, she won the II Prize at the XIV International “Kharkiv Assemblies” and entered Kotliarevsky Kharkiv National University.

In 2018 she won the second prize in the first international competition – Tchaikovsky Festival in Trostyanets. Lalita took part in master classes of Y.Tkanov (Kyiv), A. Belov (Austria,Graz), M.Risanov (Great Britain), V. Mikitka (Germany).

Now she works at the department of chamber and instrumental ensemble.

“The Magic Strings” violin ensemble was created in 2009 by Lyudmyla Martyniuk. The members of the ensemble are pupils of the Chernivtsi School №2 and students of the Sydor Vorobkevych Chernivtsi College of Arts. This band is the winner of several International competitions: “Climbing of Yalta”, “Chords of Khortytsia”, owner of the Grand Prix of the International Competition “Premio Lancano” (Lancano, Italy), owner of the Grand Prix of the competition “Golden Violin M” Elman “(Talne) and a regular participant of city and regional concert events.

Vitaliy Bobrovskiy graduated from Lysenko Lviv musical academy. Now works at Ternopil Krushelnytska College and Shevchenko Dram Theater. He is the author of musical projects: Music nights in theater foyer, Music salon of art song. Vitaliy participates in the recording project “Ukrainian Art Song Project” by Pavlo Gunko.